The Little Prince: Sixtieth-Anniversary Gift Edition

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Antoine Saint. Harcourt Children's Books, $25.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-15-204804-4

Many old friends revisit readers in handsome new volumes. Always welcome is that charming visitor from another planet, Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince. A 60th-anniversary gift edition features a cloth slipcase, a satin ribbon bookmark and a bookplate. The fable remains as lyrically haunting as ever in Richard Howard's new (2000) translation.

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